Solaris How to Scan FC LUNS and SCSI Disks ?

Solaris 10

Applications and Databases storage requirement on the servers will be keep on

increase day by day. According to that, Unix admin need to increase filesystem
space on Unix servers periodically. Assigning big SAN space to filesystem also not
possible since storage cost involved on that. So its a routine work for Unix admin
and need to follow best practice for scanning the storage and adding in to the
filesystem. In Solaris, we can able to scan the LUNS without rebooting the host. But
in rare circumstances, we may need to end up with server reboot to see newly
assigned LUNS. Here we will see how to scan the local disks and SAN LUNs in
Solaris host.

Scanning FC/SAN LUNS in Solaris

Before scanning LUNS, we see some useful commands which are related to Fibre
Channel(FC).
1.List the connected HBAs.
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# luxadm -e port |grep CONNECTED
/devices/pci@1d,700000/SUNW,qlc@1,1/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
/devices/pci@1d,700000/SUNW,qlc@3/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED

2.Verify FC channel s are connected and configured.

Unix@sol# cfgadm -al -o show_FCP_dev |grep fc-fabric
c2

fc-fabric

connected

configured unknown

c4

fc-fabric

connected

configured unknown

Unix@sol#

3.To find the HBAs World wide Node number (WWN),use fcinfo command,
Unix@sol# fcinfo hba-port |grep Port
HBA Port WWN: 10000000c884bb48
HBA Port WWN: 10000000c884bb49
HBA Port WWN: 10000000c884b85c

HBA Port WWN: 10000000c884b85d

Unix@sol#

4.You can also find the WWN form luxadm command, if HBA is already connected
to FC switch.
Unix@sol# luxadm -e dump_map /dev/cfg/c4
Pos Port_ID Hard_Addr Port WWN

Node WWN

Type

29900 0

50080e8008cfb814 50080e8008cfb814 0x0 (Disk device)

27400 0

10000000c884b85c 20000000c884b85c 0x1f (Unknown Type,Host Bus Adapter)

Unix@sol#

From the above output, the last line shows the HBA information.In the same you
can find the other controller information as well.
5.Zoning can be verified using the below command.
Unix@sol# cfgadm -al -o show_FCP_dev c2 c4

6.If you see any controller port WWN showing as unconfigured ,then you can
initiate FC session using below mentioned command.
Unix@sol# cfgadm -c configure c2::50080e8008cfb814
Unix@sol# cfgadm -c configure c4::50080e8008cfb814

Lets see how we can re-scan the SAN/FC luns on solaris 10/11 hosts.
To scan new FC luns, Just execute the below commands.

Scanning FC/SAN LUNS

1

cfgadm -al

To scan FC luns

devfsadm -c disk

To make sure all the device files are created

tail /var/adm/messages

To see the new LUNs information

echo |format

To get the new LUNs information

ls -lrt /dev/rdsk |grep s2|tail

To get the new LUNs information

luxadm probe also used to scan FC luns but i am happy to use cfgadm.
If you still not able to see the new LUNS/DISK ,then you can try to reset the HBA as
last option if you have multipath enabled. (Do not try in critical servers unless you
have confident on multipathing)
1.List the connected HBA.
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# luxadm -e port |grep CONNECTED
/devices/pci@1d,700000/SUNW,qlc@1,1/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
/devices/pci@1d,700000/SUNW,qlc@3/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED

2.Reset the HBA using forcelip option.

root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# luxadm -e forcelip /devices/pci@1d,700000/SUNW,qlc@1,1/fp@0,0:devctl

Forcelip can be issued to the controller names as well.

Unix@sol# cfgadm -al -o show_FCP_dev |grep fc-fabric
c2

fc-fabric

connected

configured unknown

c4

fc-fabric

connected

configured unknown

Unix@sol#
Unix@sol# luxadm -e forcelip /dev/cfg/c2

3. Verify the controller status using cfgadm -al.Make sure disks didn;t loose any
SAN paths after the HBA reset. If everything seems to be okay ,then isssue the
forcelip to the another controller.
If still you are not able to see the new FC/SAN LUNS ,then reboot the server and try.
Once you see the new lun, make sure that multiple FC paths are enabled to that.
Minimum two FC paths required for SAN disks.
luxadm display /dev/rdsk/c1txxxxxxd0s2 To verify the FC lun details and
multipathing.

Scanning Local SCSI disks in Solaris

1.List the currently available harddisks.

root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# echo |format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c8t0d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@0,0
1. c8t1d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@1,0
2. c8t2d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@2,0
3. c8t3d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@3,0
4. c8t4d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@4,0
5. c8t5d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@5,0
6. c8t6d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@6,0
Specify disk (enter its number): Specify disk (enter its number):
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~#

2.Assume

new

SCSI

harddisks

3.Scan the SCSI disks.

root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# devfsadm -c disk
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# echo |format

are

added

to

the

server.

Searching for disks...done

AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:

0. c8t0d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@0,0
1. c8t1d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@1,0
2. c8t2d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@2,0
3. c8t3d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@3,0
4. c8t4d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@4,0
5. c8t5d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@5,0
6. c8t6d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@6,0
7. c8t8d0
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@8,0
Specify disk (enter its number): Specify disk (enter its number):
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~#

4.Still if you are not able to see the new disks,use cfgadm command and then
devfsadm.
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id
c8

Type
scsi-bus

Receptacle Occupant
connected

Condition

configured unknown

c8::dsk/c8t0d0

disk

connected

configured unknown

c8::dsk/c8t1d0

disk

connected

configured unknown

c8::dsk/c8t2d0

disk

connected

configured unknown

c8::dsk/c8t3d0

disk

connected

configured unknown

c8::dsk/c8t4d0

disk

connected

configured unknown

c8::dsk/c8t5d0

disk

connected

configured unknown

c8::dsk/c8t6d0

disk

connected

configured unknown

c8::dsk/c8t8d0

disk

connected

configured unknown

cfgadm: Configuration administration not supported: Error: hotplug service is pr

ble the service. See cfgadm_shp(1M) for more details.
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~#
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~# devfsadm -c disk
root@Unixarena-SOL11:~#